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A Collection Of Edible And Medicinal Plants Foraged In Utah, Clarissa Chipman

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A field guide to 68 edible and medicinal plants found in Utah

North American Chinese Comfort Foods, Alyssa Anderson

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This project encompasses several recipes from a North American Chinese family and examines the use of technology in the transmission of folklore

All Of Utah's A Stage, Hailey Bennett

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About the popularity of theaters in Utah. Include interviews on how Utah County theater has impacted LDS and LGBTQ+ culture.

Sighted: Skinwalkers, Lexie Russon

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Stories about people who have encountered Navajo Skinwalkers.

Urban Legends About Movies, Matt Goulding

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This project covers urban legends that surround the creation, reception, and legacy of movies.

Text Posts As Folk Ethnopoetics, Tracy Vogel

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About grammar in social media. A PowerPoint focusing on how living internet grammar clarifies performance to the reader, similar to an ethnopoetic score.

Online Meme Community Of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Clelland Ukiah Reynolds

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About an online community known as Community of Fire Emblem: Three Houses. This paper examines how folklore is used to create community.

The Validating Formula: Convergence Of Folklore With Internet Culture, Regan Poulsen

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This paper analyzes how folklore is increasingly transmitted online rather than face to face

Folklore Food, Bradon Thomason

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This project examines food as an example of familial and regional folklore in Utah

Sophisticated Scares: An Analysis Of Scary Stories, Abigail Tree

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This paper argues that scary stories follow a sophisticated oral narrative pattern, which reveal the concerns of contemporary society

Bad Dates: Common Misconceptions, Education, And Elements Of Expectations, Elisabeth Ericson

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About bad date stories. This project argues that such stories play an important role in the social education of young adults

Dark Web Folklore, Abel Huskinson

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Stories and rumors about the dark web

Dragonfable: The Folklore Of Fandom, Jonathan Kruyer

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About the folklore of the fan community DragonFable--an indie videogame

Coping Mechanisms 2020, Rebekah Balanzategui

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Traditions that sustained people throughout the 2020 pandemic

Chain Letters, Seth Peters

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An analysis of how chain letters and their variants act as a form of modern-day folklore

Stick It: The Lasting Experiences Of Gymnasts, Jason Gibbons

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About the experiences of gymnasts. This paper highlights the importance of mindful coaching tactics and comradery in the face of difficult situations.

Hungry Ghosts, Ming Li Yew

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About supernatural events that have occurred during Hungry Ghost Festivals

Momma Told Me, Rani Floyd

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About folk narratives told to small children to ensure obedience

Bet You Won't Guess My Middle Name: Middle Name Customs In Lds Culture, Kayla Rane

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About the Latter-day Saint tradition of withholding a daughter's middle name. Includes interviews about women who legally adopted their maiden name as a middle name upon marriage.

Family Folklore: Games, Rory Donohue

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This project looks at game playing as family folklore

Memes: Folklore On The Internet, Jacob Christiansen

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About memes as folklore

The Haunted City: Ghost Stories From A Spooky Town, Ellie Kuoppala

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A collection of ghost stories collected in the town of Butte, Montana.

Online Appendix: Who Are(N’T) Our Students?, Dianna Murphy, Hadis Ghaedi

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The document is an appendix to the article "Who Are(n’t) Our Students?" by Dianna Murphy, Hadis Ghaedi published in RLJ Vol. 71, No. 3 . It provides high-resolution images which, due to their large size, are not legible in the print edition.

Deep Parameter Selection For Classic Computer Vision Applications, Michael Whitney

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A trend in computer vision today is to retire older, so-called "classic'' methods in favor of ones based on deep neural networks. This has led to tremendous improvements in many areas, but for some problems deep neural solutions may not yet exist or be of practical application. For this and other reasons, classic methods are still widely used in a variety of applications. This paper explores the possibility of using deep neural networks to improve these older methods instead of replace them. In particular, it addresses the issue of parameter selection in these algorithms by using a neural network to …

Atypical Sensory Processing And Semantic Language In Autistic Children, Charlene L. Cooper

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Autistic children demonstrate a constellation of traits with varying degrees of severity in areas including language differences, restrictive and repetitive behaviors, and sensory processing differences. However, the relationship between sensory processing and these other behaviors are not well understood especially their neurobiological underpinnings. Therefore, this research examined behavioral measures of semantic language, sensory traits, and associated brain networks in 20 autistic children (ages 6-11) and 22 typically developing (TD) age matched peers. Mann-Whitney U tests revealed a strong correlation between sensory traits and general composite and semantic language in both groups of participants. Sensory seeking traits were most significantly correlated …

A Geometric Approach To Multiple Target Tracking Using Lie Groups, Mark E. Petersen

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Multiple target tracking (MTT) is the process of localizing targets in an environment using sensors that perceive the environment. MTT has many applications such as wildlife monitoring, air traffic monitoring, and surveillance. These applications motivate further research in the different challenging aspects of MTT. One of these challenges that we will focus on in this dissertation is constructing a high fidelity target model. A common approach to target modeling is to use linear models or other simplified models that do not properly describe the target's pose (position and orientation), motion, and uncertainty. These simplified models are typically used because they …

Modeling The Effects Of Parameter Changes On Heating And Pressure At The Weld Interface And Joint Strength In Friction Bit Joining, Adam Hartly Wagner

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Joining of dissimilar metals is a process that is of interest in many fields, especially the automotive industry where lightweighting of the body structure is important. However, creating strong joints between dissimilar metals can be challenging. Friction bit joining (FBJ) is a solid-state method that uses a consumable bit to create a strong joint between dissimilar metals such as aluminum and steel. The purpose of this research is to gain understanding of how adjusting FBJ parameters affects the heating and pressure at the weld interface using a modeling approach, in order to better understand the bonding process. The questions guiding …

Childhood Treasures, Mattison Bowen

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About childhood treasures and the impact of giving and receiving

Quietly Myself: The Story Of The Byu Students That Identify As Lgbtq+, Dalan Nelson

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Items, stories, and beliefs from LGBTQ+ students at BYU. Includes interviews on Pride items, LGBTQ+ relationships with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and other folklore of the LGBTQ+ community

Modeling A Human Family Network, Rebecca Jo Flores

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We propose a model that generates a family network based on real-world family network data. We use this model to study the extent to which distances to union and the number of children characterize family networks. To determine how accurate our model is we use persistent homology to identify and compare the structure of our modeled family networks to real-world family networks. To accomplish this, we introduce the notion of a network's persistence curve, which encodes the network's set of persistence intervals. Using the bottleneck distance allows us to measure the difference in the homological structure between any pair of …